Pre-hospital advanced airway management by anaesthesiologists: Is there still room for improvement?

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Sollid, Stephen J M ^a   Heltne, Jon K ^b   Søreide, Eldar ^a   Lossius, Hans M ^c  

^a STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Norway)

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EID: 77950021464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17577241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-7241-16-2     Document Type: Article

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